Engineer Gobies "Illness"

[dinareef]

Hello everyone! My name is Dina!
Have a major problem.
I have two Engineer Gobies (convict blenny, convict goby) in my tank that have varying degrees of the
same illness. They have white or gray cloudy spots spreading on their sides and clouding over the eyes.
Have them in my tank over than 14 month
, and they or other fish in my tank never get sick. Thay eat normaly, :nope:
but they are sick, and thay nice skin isnt so nice any more.
Do you have any idea what the gobies have that isn't affecting the other fish and any possible cure for their symptoms? This is a reef tank!
Please help!

 

[beth]

Hello, Dina, and welcome to the forums!
Can you try and post up more pictures or give more details about what you are seeing.

 

[dinareef]

Hello, Beth!
Another pictures, but is very similar .
Convict gobys are still eat normaly, but their skin is the same.
NH3, Nh4, Po3, No2 i No3 are normal.

 

[dinareef]

Now i have another bed news! One of my two clown fishes is also ill. He is in the corner if tank and he is not eating.
This is newest picture.
He and convict have troble whit breading, their mouth are constantly open.

 

[beth]

That may be brooklynella. Can you put these fish in a QT? Do you have one?
Look at the clowns with brooklynella in the Diseased Fish Thread and see if that looks like what you have. The treatment for brooklynella is formalin bathes. The procedure is detailed in the FAQ Thread.
You need to treat immediately or they will die quickly.

 

[dinareef]

Thanks Beth
Have a QT!
But why this is happening?
Do i need to quarantine all the fishes ?

 

[dinareef]

What is formalin bathes? Dont know what it is
:nope:
Im so, so sad!

 

[dinareef]

Thanks Beth!

 

[beth]

That looks like brooklynella. Take a look at the clowns with brooklynella in the Diseased Fish Thread. Then, head over to the FAQ Thread and look at the post on formalin bathes. Follow that procedure.
Please post back results after the bath, just to be sure we hit the diagnoses.

 

[dinareef]

Beth, thanks. My fishes are O.K.

 

[stingray lover]

what if you don't have qt the same thing happened to my egobys

 

[beth]

Using a quarantine is pretty much necessary when using medications. Brooklynella is treated with "bathes". However, its near impossible to capture and recapture fish for the bathes if they remain in the display tank.

 

[stingray lover]

well if they get sick of stress u have to chatch them an d that puts more stress and u have to acclimate them more stress then there in a place they don't know and that's even more stress
are u kninda getting where im coming from because I just switched out my tanks and that's when it happen

 

[beth]

The idea of a quarantine is to place new fish in to isolation before the fish ever gets into the display tank. That way you have time to address all of the contagious and many other ailments a fish may have before introducing the fish to a display tank. Once the fish is in the display, if it becomes sick, then you not only have to dishevel the display tank to get the fish out, you also have to chase the fish around--putting the fish in the stressful state you describe.